News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-01-06
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NOTES.
The heads of IL Apacbes are pre-.
served in the museum of an Arizona
town.
There have been great herds of an
telopes seen on the line of the Union
Pacific railway in Wyoming this win
ter.
Quebec is to have new hotel cost
ing about $500, 900, to be erected on
the site of the old Parliament build
lug. A New York architect is max
ing the plans.
A butterfly was recently caught in
some Pennsylvania woods where there
is sixteen inches of snow on the
ground. 1t celebrated its Christmas
among the house plants of its captor.
Fihy-fve million five hundred and
torty-seven thousand and forty cans
of tomatoes were packed in the United
States during the past season. This
is below the annual consumptive re-
quirements of the country.
A famous dog trainer educates his
dogs by simply talking to them. He
uses neither sugar nor whip, but tries
to make the dog understand what he
is to do. He then does the trick him
self and the dogs follow and initiate
him.
The small boy is anxiously consid
ering the weather to discover whether
he will bring out his Christmas skates
or toboggan. His preference for the
toboggan is increased by the new cap
and various objects of use which sug-
gest the grand slide.
DIR. j. H. Douglass has never re-
covered his health, which was serious
ly impaired by his months of devo-
ton to Gen. Grant during his last i'll
ness. He has gone to the Arkansas
Hot Springs, and expects to spend
the greater part of the winter in Flor
ida.
Men are strange creatures. They
will waste an hour hunting a collar
button instead of having an extra sup
ply and letting his wife find the miss
ing one. You never see a woman
look for pin she drops. Her hus-
band finds it when he walks around in
his bare feet.
A party of young men in Taunton
invited some young ladies to JOIN them
in sleigh ride TO eighboring town
They all enjoyed themselves, but
when the girls were called upon to pay
their fare with the rest, damper was
put upon the proceedings which only
time, and plenty of it can eface.
Owing to the diversity of climate
and production afforded by the States
of the Union, and to the facilities of
intercourse with them, the trade of
Massachusetts with her sister States
exceeds in value the entire foreign
commerce of the whole country, with
all the world besides.
Texas has one county in which no
liquor is known 20 have been sold in
the past six years. 1t is one of the
wealthiest and most prosperous coun-
ties in the State, and its Jail is usual
ly unoccupied. Texas, by the way,
is making advances towards temper
ance. The number of liquor saloons
was reduced 558 last year.
The reckless killing of herons.
storks, egrets, etc., in southern Flor
ida has been followed by an increase
in the number of snakes about the
ponds and lakes. The great blue
heron is without rival as a snake
catcher. He does not fear the most
yenemous reptile, and in battle al
ways comes out best. He always eats
his enemy after the fight is over.
A curious well is now in use on
farm near New Madrid, Mo. Its
curbing is mere y an old hollow tree,
which had sunk into the ground dis
lance of 20 feet. When found and
cut into, good water was discovered,
and is now being used by the family.
1t has afforded water for some time.
and bids fair to hold out it's water
giving capacity as well, if not better,
than carefully constructed well.
The following notice in Montana
newspaper is not calculated to soothe
the feelings of the thief who stole
MIR. SIMPSONS bay mare: .'The night
of the 18th inst. dark bay mare, 10
hands high, small white star in fore
| head, both hind feet white, was stolen
from the stable of Ira Sampson, the
undersigned. 1 will give the mare
and $50 in cash for full and reliable
particulars regarding the funeral of
the thief. That's the kind of a man
| am"
The city of Cerro de Pasco, Peru,
located at point where two ranges
of the Cordilleras meet, has a remark
able climate, owing to its great eleva-
ton above the sea. From December
to March, a season which the people
term their winter, whereas, in reality,
it is their summer, the temperature
during the day is from II to Is de-
grees above zero; at night it falls to
neal zero, but the water seldom freez-
es. During this season the sun ap-
pears at times, and from the purity of
the atmosphere the heat caused by it's
rays is almost unbearable. A person
may be standing partly in the sun
light and portion of his body in the
shade. That portion in the shade
will be disagreeably cold, while the
part exposed to the sun will be I'M
comfortably warm.